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Solving the Wallis--North paradox in transaction cost measurement

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This note contributes to solving the Wallis--North paradox in transaction cost measurement. By distinguishing latent transaction costs from actual transaction costs, the note showed that when the latent transaction costs were prohibitively high, no transaction and actual transaction costs would happen and thus the share of transaction sectors should be zero; nevertheless, with latent transaction costs declining, transaction sectors and actual transaction costs will increase. Therefore, a higher share of transaction sectors in an economy reveals that the economy actually has a lower level of (latent) transaction costs. The Wallis--North approach is still workable for the transaction cost measurement but with an inverted interpretation.

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  • Puqing Lai, 2013. "Solving the Wallis--North paradox in transaction cost measurement," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(15), pages 1445-1448, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:20:y:2013:i:15:p:1445-1448
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2013.818207
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    1. Graca-Gelert, Patrycja & Sulejewicz, Aleksander, 2021. "The measurement of transaction costs in Poland, 1996-2014," MPRA Paper 108833, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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